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Paul J. Mills is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their scholarly work spans multiple disciplines with a focus on medicine and psychology, supported by a significant number of publications in these main fields.

Their research encompasses various subfields, including clinical psychology, molecular biology, social psychology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and health. The range of topics studied by Mills covers mindfulness and compassion interventions, religion, spirituality and psychology, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, COVID-19 and mental health, heart failure treatment and management, extracellular vesicles in disease, and tryptophan and brain disorders.

Frequent publication venues for Mills include:

  • The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Communications Biology
  • Healthcare
  • Religions

Mills has coauthored numerous papers with several recurrent collaborators, including:

  • Deepak Chopra
  • Agnieszka Brojakowska
  • Malik Bisserier
  • Venkata Naga Srikanth Garikipati
  • David A. Goukassian

Notable recent publications by Mills include the following:

  • Meditation and Yoga Practices as Potential Adjunctive Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19: A Brief Overview of Key Subjects (2020), published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
  • Association of Lifetime Exposure to Glyphosate and Aminomethylphosphonic Acid (AMPA) with Liver Inflammation and Metabolic Syndrome at Young Adulthood: Findings from the CHAMACOS Study (2023), published in Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Retrospective analysis of somatic mutations and clonal hematopoiesis in astronauts (2022), published in Communications Biology
  • Religiosity and Suicide: A Large-Scale International and Individual Analysis Considering the Effects of Different Religious Beliefs (2021), published in Journal of Religion and Health
  • Examining the mediating role of perceived stress in the relationship between mindfulness and quality of life and mental health: testing the mindfulness stress buffering model (2020), published in Anxiety Stress & Coping

Best Publications

  • A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness meditation versus relaxation training: effects on distress, positive states of mind, rumination, and distraction.

    Shamini Jain;Shauna L. Shapiro;Summer Swanick;Scott C. Roesch

  • Depression in heart failure a meta-analytic review of prevalence, intervention effects, and associations with clinical outcomes

    Thomas Rutledge;Veronica A. Reis;Sarah E. Linke;Barry H. Greenberg

  • Effects of psychological stress and psychiatric disorders on blood coagulation and fibrinolysis: A biobehavioral pathway to coronary artery disease?

    Roland von Känel;Paul J. Mills;Claudia Fainman;Joel E. Dimsdale

  • The association between fatigue and inflammatory marker levels in cancer patients: a quantitative review.

    Christian Schubert;Suzi Hong;Loki Natarajan;Paul J. Mills

  • The relationship between heart rate variability and inflammatory markers in cardiovascular diseases.

    Alexander Haensel;Paul J. Mills;Richard A. Nelesen;Michael G. Ziegler

  • A meta-analysis of mental health treatments and cardiac rehabilitation for improving clinical outcomes and depression among patients with coronary heart disease.

    Thomas Rutledge;Laura S. Redwine;Sarah E. Linke;Paul J. Mills

  • Pre-treatment symptom cluster in breast cancer patients is associated with worse sleep, fatigue and depression during chemotherapy.

    Lianqi Liu;Lavinia Fiorentino;Loki Natarajan;Barbara A. Parker

  • Biofield Therapies: Helpful or Full of Hype? A Best Evidence Synthesis

    Shamini Jain;Paul J. Mills

  • Effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure and Placebo Treatment on Sympathetic Nervous Activity in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

    Michael G. Ziegler;Paul J. Mills;Jose S. Loredo;Sonia Ancoli-Israel

  • Effects of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Versus Supplemental Oxygen on 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure

    Daniel Norman;José S. Loredo;Richard A. Nelesen;Sonia Ancoli-Israel

  • Higher population-based incidence rates of triple-negative breast cancer among young African-American women : Implications for breast cancer screening recommendations.

    Kathryn C. Amirikia;Paul Mills;Jason Bush;Lisa A Newman

  • Interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha production after acute psychological stress, exercise, and infused isoproterenol: differential effects and pathways.

    Marion U. Goebel;Paul J. Mills;Michael R. Irwin;Michael G. Ziegler

  • Effect of Alzheimer Caregiving Stress and Age on Frailty Markers Interleukin-6, C-Reactive Protein, and D-Dimer

    Roland von Känel;Joel E. Dimsdale;Paul J. Mills;Sonia Ancoli-Israel

  • Effects of Chronic Stress on Memory Decline in Cognitively Normal and Mildly Impaired Older Adults

    Guerry M. Peavy;David P. Salmon;Mark W. Jacobson;Aaron Hervey

  • Yoga, Meditation and Mind-Body Health: Increased BDNF, Cortisol Awakening Response, and Altered Inflammatory Marker Expression after a 3-Month Yoga and Meditation Retreat.

    B. Rael Cahn;Matthew S. Goodman;Christine T. Peterson;Raj Maturi

  • Fatigue and sleep quality are associated with changes in inflammatory markers in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy

    Lianqi Liu;Paul J. Mills;Paul J. Mills;Michelle Rissling;Michelle Rissling;Lavinia Fiorentino

  • Sleep, fatigue, depression, and circadian activity rhythms in women with breast cancer before and after treatment: a 1-year longitudinal study.

    Sonia Ancoli-Israel;Lianqi Liu;Lianqi Liu;Michelle Rissling;Michelle Rissling;Loki Natarajan;Loki Natarajan

  • Constitutive pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine and growth factor response to exercise in leukocytes

    Frank Zaldivar;Jessica Wang-Rodriguez;Dan Nemet;Christina Schwindt

  • Low-intensity light therapy: exploring the role of redox mechanisms.

    Joseph Tafur;Paul J. Mills

  • Effects of nasal continuous positive airway pressure and oxygen supplementation on norepinephrine kinetics and cardiovascular responses in obstructive sleep apnea.

    Paul J. Mills;Brian P. Kennedy;Jose S. Loredo;Joel E. Dimsdale

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel E. Dimsdale
Joel E. Dimsdale University of California, San Diego
Michael G. Ziegler
Michael G. Ziegler University of California, San Diego
Sonia Ancoli-Israel
Sonia Ancoli-Israel University of California, San Diego
Roland von Känel
Roland von Känel University of Zurich
Thomas L. Patterson
Thomas L. Patterson University of California, San Diego
Igor Grant
Igor Grant University of California, San Diego
Brent T. Mausbach
Brent T. Mausbach University of California, San Diego
Thomas Rutledge
Thomas Rutledge University of California, San Diego
Barry H. Greenberg
Barry H. Greenberg University of California, San Diego
Matthew A. Allison
Matthew A. Allison University of California, San Diego

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